Did Univision give GOP an early peek?

12/2/11 2:49 PM EST

The conservative Florida politics site Shark Tank jumped on a comment DNC chairwoman and congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz made last week during an interview with Univision. Alongside footage from the interview, managing editor Javier Manjarres ran an item extolling the importance of Tea Party values—“simple and straightforward” values that DWS and her Democratic Party “cannot square their progressive agenda with.”

Trashing DWS is all but a stated mission at Shark Tank, where managing editor Javier Manjarres has asked readers to “donate at least $5 to help oust ‘DWS’ from Congress,” for the sake of resisting “Obama’s dangerous Socialist agenda.”

But this interview with DWS—produced by Miami-Ft. Lauderdale’s Univision 23—hadn’t aired yet, and wouldn’t until the following day.

Univision has a very clear policy about keeping its footage in-house, even after—let alone before—it airs. The FAQ page reads, in translation, “Univision can not provide copies of its programming, and is owned by its producers.”

The video has now been taken down from Shark Tank’s post, with the following note: “‘Someone’ complained about the video, so our friends over at Univision asked us to take down the video. We took the video down as a courtesy.” (Underline theirs.)

DWS communications director Jonathan Beeton told us that they were not the ones to request the video be taken down.

A Univision spokesperson said the company was “currently looking into the matter.”